Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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desuetude

Why do they hover up there, letting their legs, the pride of dogs, fall into desuetude

I think this was the part when I realised that this dog thought every other creature was also a dog

—p.317 Investigations of a Dog (300) by Franz Kafka
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inimical

premature independence is inimical to systematic learning

(says the dog)

—p.315 Investigations of a Dog (300) by Franz Kafka
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raillery

merely a way of speaking, a jest, a form of raillery

—p.311 Investigations of a Dog (300) by Franz Kafka
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the world was cheating him of his reward

[...] when once in a while some leisurely passer-by stopped, made merry over the old figure on the board, and spoke of swindling, that was in its way the stupidest lie ever invented by indifference and inborn malice, since it was not the hunger artist who was cheating, he was working honestly, but …

—p.298 A Hunger Artist (289) by Franz Kafka